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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-15
RAG-PlCkERS AND RAGS.
A Queer Glass of People Who Sometime
Accumulate Good Enrtunes.

Accumulate Good Fortunes.
The chtoHier, as the French call him, the
rag picker, is a more valuable member OF
society than cursory glance at him would
lead one TO suppose. He and his woman
and children are not particularly tidy
looking in the early morning as they go
proving through the cutters and alleys OF
a great city i'll search of the rubbish other
people have thrown away. With his basket
on his back, and iron-tippcd stick in his
hand, he has something of the look Of "a
bird of prey, but he does no harm. He is
in fact an industrious, Woodworking and
thrifty person, ana in time he gets COM
fortably rich. That is, he amasscs four or
five thousand dollars, and then back he
goes TO his native land to enjoy his hard
earned wealth for the remainder OF his days.
For those engaged in this business in the
United States are fore gncrs, III silly Poles,
Bohemians ana Italians, with some French
men.
When we think of rag we think of
It as something utterly worthless and con
temptible; something that even beggars
cast away Hamlet called his uncle a
* ny of shreds and patches" that is, "a
King of rags, and he could devise no more
StlbtIlplNlbuS ulItIlablpu l'l llilil' y pti"
son in rags is an object both of pity and
contempt, and ragamuffin is mean and
paltry wretch. But there are rags and
rags, Rags in the gutter, rags scattered
about, are one thing, but rags collected
together, sorted out and baled, are mer-
chandse of great value. In the United
States there are six hundred and ninety
two paper mills with an aggregate capt.
tai OF fifty million dollars, which
depend for their daily sustcnance
on these same contemplate rags.
These mills employ 5000 hands one
third Of whom are women, and they pay in
wages annually 100000. They use in the
manufacture of the best qualities of paper
cotton and linen rags 10 the amount of 100
coo tons annually. Common paper is made
of old paper, straw and wood pulp. The
value Of these 100000 tons of rags is over
twenty millions of dollars. The beginnings
of this vast wealth lie in the humble rag
picker, and his somewhat more prosperous
brother, who goes from house to house in
a creaky wagon drawn by spawned horse,
crying in dolorous monotone: Ira .ags to
buy
The rag-picker having gone his daily
round, and secured his sackful, carries it
to the middle man, the rag -merchant, who
has a warehouse. The merchant pays one
cent pound for paper, and one and one
half to two and e-half cents for rags, de-
pendent on their kind and condition. Many
of the rag-pickers, those that are bound to
get rich, DO not draw their money until
Saturday, though they make their deliver
les of rags every day. When Saturday
comes their account often amounts to is
much as ten dollars. II il does not Il. y
will bring change with Them so as to get a
ten-dollar bill. These they save and VIII
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BOSTON LETTER,
rrehor Writes OF Dramatic Boston-Its
Temples of Drama and Comedy-Rhea
and Harretts

1tmptts u anu Noht'y
and Barrett
Especial Correspondence
Pharisaic Boston Is legend of the dead
past, and as all travelled roads lead in Italy
TO Rome, so all roads leading to that high
err culture" which is the true Bostonian
fetch, are in these days open highways to
her sons and daughters, and the rest of the
family usually linger near. German mys-
ticism, Emersonian philosophy, music and
the drama are all means TO the desired end
OF leaving untasted no fruit of the tree
of Knowledge.
Between the last two there is perhaps
the greatest possibility of feeding the heart
as we'll as brain. Though usually the Bos-
ton brain receives the nutritious pulp, and
the dry husks are left for the unhappy
pump which is expected to attend to the
human circulation.
Since the stage has been accepted as an
educator, it only remains for individual
taste to select its especial type OF instruc-
ton. and 10! all Boston throngs the the
aters to be td,ght as the great outer world
in other cities attends to be amused. In
the language of Pitt Sing: at all de-
pe,,dsgn
The temples of histrionic culture favored
by the elect are five. Thls mystic number,
broken by the reduction of the pretty
Bijou" to the rank of cheap respectable
ity, was restored by the opening of the
Hollis" year ago, whore "Adonis"
Dxey dances, and bewltches with his
harmless bar'eSqaerie, as unreproved as
though its churchly walls had not echoed
with devout prayers before its grand trans
formation. 1t has IA spacious entrance foyer,
rich in bronze effects and OF artistic design,
while the equally attractive auditorium is
un que, in that every seat is within sight
and car-shot of the stage.
The Park is another of the beautiful
and comfortable small theaters. Here one
is always sure Of an uneXchpttonable enter
tainmeut and may settle back in his stall
with long sigh of content in the generally
we'll bred atmosphere of his environments.
The Boston," besides the most spacious
stage, will accommodate in round numbers
four thousand people as it did when Ell
win Booth received his welcome home for
his annual engagement this season. To the
Boston man and woman, young or old, IN
whom the traditional dramatic fervor has
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4 Sound banker.

The times" was the topic Of converse
ton with group of villagers at the store
in one Of the counties Of Southern Indiana,
and the soundness OF % local banker came
up for discussion.
is old Jones soundf" inquired one OF The
party.
Uncle Ben, one OF the old timers, taking
bis pipe from a hole In his face that looked
like slit in side OF sole leather, broke
out: Sound! Jones sound! Well, he ia
He never was sick in his life, weighs on,
hundred and eighty pounds, voted for Tom
Hendricks, and believes in immersion! I'd
g-all that sound, In Think
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Gives the Allopsthic. Homeopathic and Eclectic
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almcnt.
Has classified Table Of symptoms" by which =ny
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threatened with
This is feature Of the book worthy Of special atteu
iona feature peculiar To this book Any good medg
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"ripened in the blood" there is but one
Booth, and Boston is his home. Why I'M
ger over this favorite of the gods in gallery
and box, when to speak of Booth is to re-
member with all gentle courtesy the gra-
cious and lovely woman who preceded him
--HOrtense Rhea, who entered upon her
profession to care for dependent mother
and sisters, by the advice of Fechter who
has by legitimate means won success of
which she may be justly proud, and whose
womanly discretion in the trying career of
an actress has been such that no breath
has ever dimmed that brightest jewel, her
good name. In private life, fair dusk
haired woman, with lustrous, changeful
dark eyes, full of tenderness, with grace
full, supple figure Of medium height On
the stage Mile shows herself as she said
to the writer, IA better artist than are your
Boston painters, as skillful as they think
themselves" - {
The strongest lens can not detect upon
the rose leaf tint upon her blonde cheek
the touch of art, so close it follows nature.
Her arting is the purest comedy, and the
April chan ,cs of her mobile features and
exquisite mouth, the movements of her
delica. ely-mOdel arms and hands, are
equally natural in the recepton-room OF
her hotel, or, when the blonde "Widow'
sweeps across the stage, bearing, with
feminine terror, the huge horse pistols,
loaded ci tea, with which her lover il to
vindcate his honor. In this scene she
wears the superb Worth dress woven for
the Queen of Holland, and bought by
Mile when the death n the Prince of
Orange prevented its being worn as in
tended. The golden bird of Paradise, en-
brOidered on the pettiCOat, is to decorate
screen at Miles chateau at MalmalSOn,
when she returns to Paris town. BOs-
ton showed a fine appreciation of the deli
cate humor of the two clearly French
adaptatious The widow and FAIRY
Fingers" from which the sparkle had not
all disappeared with the rtS9oe situations.
A dramatic critic, who ought to know,
remarked, during one especially mclo-
dramatic week: " II is all magnetism or
statuary this winter"
When Mrs. Langtry and Wilson Barrett
were b He'd at the Boston and the Globe, II
promised 70 be ''magnetism' versus :" stat
nary The Lily is still a most beautiful
woman ana most lifeless actress. She
las, however, the tact to understand that
he most diff 'u!t piece Of acting is TO E,f'D,
and when trying situation demands a
speaking ,ountenancc she dis"rcctiy turns
lar ia k on IT, The Lady Of Lyons turned
ler sup 'rb shoulders to receive all those
olrsts Of ind gnant rhJdomontadc which
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Chicago, Alton & 81. Louis Railroad


Lightning Express Denver Express. and Kansas CITY
and 81 Louis Express. trains ran daily, Express Ma
and Joliet Accommodation ran dairy, except sunday.
Kansas CITY and 81 Louis Express going south ruh'
through lthuut change 81 cars Morning tram 70 -
Louis hl- free chair ears aud evening train through
JAY " ADAMS,
Ticket Agent {. \ 4 Railroad
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SINGING AT HER WORK.

GIN. X Buct, IN Good Housekeeping.l
Iheard her singing at her work
As I passed by one day;
And paused TO see the maid who sung
That ballad quaint and gay,
About brave and handsome knight
Who loved and rode away.
Isaw her fitting here ana there,
On household tasks intent;
The while she sang her tender strains
or how he did relent,
And rode full many weary mile
To gain his loves consent.
But an. although she sang Of love
Her voice was light ana gay,
And well I knew her mIiien heart
Had never felt Loves sway,
And yet, explain it rs you will,
lost my heart that day.
But nov never stop 70 hear
AS pass by that way,
The girl who sang while at her work
That ballad quaint and gay;
Because-she sings sweeter song
In my own home today.
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Claude helnotte pours out upon Pauline;
and even IN the welcome 10 her returning
hero the audience is left to Judge from the
crisp curl OF her matchless scolding locks
Of the supposable rapture in her heart.
Certainly Mrs. I-sngtry, posing in the elab-
crate simplicity OF white Grape, Direc-
toire gown, with a rope of pearls about the
waist and pearl broidered to the knee, was
a sight TO make men mad-snd so was her
setting, though not for the same reason.
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OTTAWA, ILLINOIS.

Standard Works of History,
Biography, Poetry and Juvenile
Books, &C., at less han One-hsif
publishers advertised prices.
All books are perfect and No
trash.
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Freight trains car-,.ss osssengers leave ottawa ~
follows. For Earl. l0Ps for Aurora. l0.ts A, L..
o. StreatOr, 70 A. n. SO p -. and ~ " a. b.
Morning train makes close connection a'Aa7cr 10
al points east and west.
PuliEAn Palace Sleeping Cars. p. TO Dravi.t
Room cars Horizons Reclining hair Cirs. and the L.
q Pslsre Din!ns Cars by this route. All isforfns
ion .bout OF fare sleeping car accommodations
,nd time tables will bs cheerfuly given hy Supplying 70
PERClVAL LOWELL
General Passenger Agent, Chicago
~ Y SG"Ng. - -
General Manager Chicago. GEO. ROE
Agent ~ ptIAva
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-05

Is OUR issue of last week we took
up the cudgel against property hold
ers, saying we were led to believe
that they demanded too much for
their land. We were taken to task,
by gentleman, the owner of land
in a desirable locality, and any
portion of which he says can be
purchased at figures as low, if not
lower, than any land lin Il town of
similar size) anywhere within a rad
ius of one hundred and fifty miles of
Philadelphia. This we dare not dis
pute. But we must aver that sites in
the town and on the line of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad are held at
figures much in advance of what Il
thoroughly reliale business men
from an adjacent town considers
they are worth. 1t must be under
stood. however. that We do not par
ticularly wish to set prices ON prop
erty. That is simply matter OF
business, where profit and loss are
stood side by side.
The same gentleman was afraid
we were doing an injury to the town
in saying what we did. 1t was with
no feeling of malice that we threw
out the hints; it was simply Il sug
gestion that should be needed by al
property owners. This town is ye
too small to 60 into the real estat,
business on a gilt edge basis. Tha
it will yet attain that cnyiable posi-
ton no one dares deny. The great
ness and grandness of the place will
unquestionably follow in shor
period of years.
1t was also intimated that but fey
properties in this place returned tn
holders thereof a scant six per cen
The thing may sound well and ma
have u tendency to tickle those VIII
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Imported Broadcloths for La
dies Costumes.
We filled a window with
them on Chestnut Street. A
big window but no two pieces
alike, and still scarcely half the
colorings we have-S5 shades
of the best broadcloths we
know of. All but three Il hell
otropes and a garnet) are Mel
lessons, 54 inches wide, S.;
the ideal broadcloth. No bet
ter for the name save that it's
a guarantee. Antwerp black
silks have stood for 800 years
as the best. Rivals plenty but
they couldn't get to the top.
SO hundreds of establishments
make broadcloths, but there $
only one Nellessen. Wouldn't
be so if the manufacturer let
up in the least; he doesn't.
Material the best possible to
begin with. Not a scrimp any
where. The try is not to see
how cheap, but how good the
broadcloth can be made. Every
thought to that. Is there a
new loneliness in tint you may
see it first in a Nellessen, sure
ly with the first. A grand
broadcloth; the make and
weight specially fit it for ladies'
dresses.
A handsome cloth of oul
own importation in % shades
So in, S2.75. The best we've
ever offered for the money.
A little lighter, same shades
81 in, $3.50.
A good broadcloth, same
shades, 50 in, s..
If desired we steam-spong,
any of these broadcloths with
out extra charge.
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Give a piece Of Pongee a
sharp slap; if it's clay-loaded
you'll know it by the dust. Cost
us something to learn that. No
clay in our Shantung Pongees,
Full weight, lustrous, PSI in.
wide, I5-yard pieces, IS. Same.
Io in, So to IS.
Beware of cheap QUALITY
Louisines; they'll part at the
seams. Dainty summer silks,
but the loose.woven lower
grades will disappoint you.
Don't come here for such
goods; the good ones are cheap
enough. Pin stripes, checks,
double and triple stripes, al
most invisible Shepherd plaids
all new, 70 cents to 81.
Surahs in plaids and stripes
all colors and black and white
extra wide and heavy and war
ranted to wear. 81.
New Black Rhadames. %
cents. Try to get them for s.
anywhere else.
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SqfG Investment.
So, $40 or $15.
Il fHG1TGHfb. N

Il. REnS q
the Wilmington Clothing House,
416 Market street. Select II
Pantaloon pattern and leave
your measure; we know YOU will
make 20 per cent on your in
vestment.
If you have $40 to invest in
a Spring Overcoat we are cen
tain we can give you the best
for the money in thir or any
other city.
$50 will buy a Scotch Chev-
lot Overcoat, full silk lined.
Mothers, we want you to see
our new styles Of Children's
Suits for spring just received.
Young men, we have new
styles in for you to select from,
made from the newest designs
of fabric and cut in the height
of fashion.
Suits for men of all sizes and
shapes, made in the best man
ner possible. You can be suit
ed by making your selection
from our stock of Suits.
Many inducements to offer il
heavp weights. Cut prices are
making sales. We need tho
room. You snve money to taxi
the goods.
Our $1.5O pantaloons is Il su
perior garment for the price.
Our garments are manufac
tured exclusively for us b,
Wanamaker ~ Brown, and W.
sell them at the same prices anC
under the same guarantee.
Our motto The best goods /oJ
the least money!.
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that they can be so many, so
pretty so different. More
marked this year than ever. 1t
isn't the hnger-long bits that
strike you-some such are
homely enough-it's the drap-
ed effect, better still the dress
effect. Sheeney, lively, wide
awake;you don't expect to see
the 374 cent French sateens on
a sleepy person.
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Public Sale.

The Subscriber about to quit farming,
and having rented her farm will sell at
Public Sale, her entire Stock, without
reserve, on her Farm one mile west of
Cowantown, Md. on
SATURDAY, MARCH 10Th, 'S7
beginning at ~ o'clock, m, the following
described personal property;
HORSES horses, No !, star, 4 years
old, sound and gentle in all respects, can
be driven by lady. No. ,, Dick, yrs
old, well broken, fine style, and good
driver. No. 3, Frances, 10 years old,
good worker and driver. No. 4, u colt 8
months old. Cattle.-Three mich cows,
one heifer, one year old. Three fine
shoats. Farm Utensils.-Farm wagon,
market dearborn, top buggy, hay rigging
champion mower nearly new, self rake
champion reaper, two horse power and
thresher, roller, corn marker, horse rake,
grain fan, > grain cradles, corn shelter,
plows, harrOws, cultivatOrs, carriage pole,
breast yoke and straps, beam and pea,
grind stone, ox-yoke, axes, shovcls,
spades, forks, ? sets lead harness, ] set
carriage harness, pillow gears, brides, col
lars, lines single and double, halters,
post spades, crow bars, cow chains, etc.
And many articles too numerous to men,
ton. Ten tons timothy hay, lot corn
fodder Also a lot Of Household and
Kitchen Furniture.
TERMS.--On all Sums of SIS and
under Cash. On all Sums over $l5, a
Credit Of Six Months will be given pur-
chaser giving Note with approved secur-
ity. Interest from date if not paid when
due.
MATILDA EGNOR.
T. jeff Scott, Auctioneer.
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READ THIS
TWICE.

In addition to our premium.
music and "Mikako" cards WV "''i' o'
Just issued q beautiful panel pict,r.
IN colors, l4x2G, facsimile r' '''.'
ducuo!n Of one of the Par;s Xxx
paintings for 1884, entitled ~r "'
sisters" 1t is u perfect gem. m,I
wei worthy u place ON the wall ~
any OF the patrons of Dobbins' Fl..
t1c soap We have copvrirb,eJ !,
and it cannot be issued hyango,il.,,',
house than ourselves. The Milk,
is limited, and will be issued ara,iu
10 readers OF This paper in the Al.
lowing manner only:
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Don't Get Caught.

This spring with your blood full of
impurities, your digestion impaired,
your appetite poor, kidneys and liver
torpid, and whole system liable to be
Frustrated by disease-but get yourself
into good condition, and ready for the
changing and warmer weather, by taking
Hoods sarsaparilla. II stands unequall-
ed for purifying the blood, giving an
appetite, and for general spring medi-
cine.
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Upholstery Goods are COM
ing in like an army with ban
ners. From the wonderful silk
sheilas to the plainest scrimp
troop after troop goes on dress
parade every day.
Let's look at the Cretonnes.
You know them as. Cretonnes,
but they are not such goods as
Creton gave his name to; his
were of hemp and flax, these
are of cotton. Two great
classes: Morris English, warm
in color but quiet-designs on
toll; French, richer, brighter,
more neutrality-suspicious. on rep
and monte cloth. Call them
Cretonnes or what you will,
thep are always cheerful and
satisfying, whether as hangings
or furniture covers. Novelties
were never so many or pro-
nounced among them as now
the French like a flower gar
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,"XT ~. " ot'V VIIU
- oliv1s and prices you can
easily understand tho
cause of it. If you want
Clothing, either ready
made or made to order,
examine our goods and
prices, as we feel posi-.
tive that we can save
You money.
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are so unfortunate as TO own dwell
ing houses, shops, stores, &C., but it
don't have the right jingle to our
minds. If it becomes necessary, fig
ures can be given, by which it can
be shown that as high as fifteen per
cent is returned the holders of GER
tain property here. What argument
will squelch the fact that certain
property was purchased for about
$1,000, and which returns some
where in the neighborhood of $500
yearly in rents. Many more return
slightly less per centages.
We do not blame the holders
They are merely trying to get square
with the world, and at the same
time making their tenants a source
of a comfortable income. This may
not be even wrong. We merely
make mention of them to show that
we mortals do not put our money
into enterprises that will not return
safe six per cent dividend. 1t is
likewise true in some instances that
purchasers Of land do not get a six
per cent return on their investment
for years, if ever. 1t is not the
Spectators fault. He is willing;
perfectly willing from the first day
Of purchase to dispose of same to
some other fellow at a price third in
advance. We are all liable to in
crease our wealth.
In conclusion, we desire it under
stood that we want this town to
build up; we want new life here !;
we want new enterprises started !;
we want new men at the back of
them. And we have plenty of land
for little money.
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EDWARD WooTTEN, Associate JUS
tice for Sussex county of the Super
ior Court of this State, died Tuesday
morning at his home in Georgetown
of pneumonia after a short illness.
He was man of the old school,
thoroughly versed in law, and his
decisions were but seldom reversed.
He was admired by a host of friends
for his many sterling qualities, and
his demise will be lamented. He was
in the SD year of his age.